Watch Your Mouth!
Do you sensor yourself when use social media? It is astonishing how many people don’t. According to Dustin Walker in his article, Price is High for Online Blunders, “Despite privacy warnings and embarrassing headlines, politicians, police officers and others who hold positions of authority will continue to tarnish their reputations online, social media experts predict.”
The ramifications for this kind of behavior can be devastating. In the article, Professor Suspended After Joke About Killing Students on Facebook, details the stories of five people, including the professor, who were either not hired, suspended or fired after making inappropriate posts online. As online social networks change the method we use to communicate, we must adapt, and think before we speak.
